After I arrived in Lexington, Kentucky yesterday, I was sitting in my hotel room doing a little online research to discover what exactly about Lexington I needed to experience during my 36 hour visit. Naturally I was also on the hunt for a bacon adventure. That is when I […]
Dispatches from the Bacon Nation
Quick update from the road…
St. Anthony (aka “Tony”) and I are officially outside the Beltway and headed west! We arrived in Kentucky earlier this evening and will be spending a few days in the Bluegrass State searching for bacon action. Today was a big driving day so there isn’t any baconage to report, […]
Following the Bacon Road
Move over Matt Lauer…I’m about to launch my own version of “Where in the World is Heather Lauer?” I’ve been somewhat M.I.A. from this blog over the last couple weeks, and it wasn’t just out of laziness this time around. I’m actually in the process of leaving my job […]
Bacon Nation Unwrapped: Bacon Daydreams
Recent news from the Bacon Nation… Want the taste of bacon on your lips all day long? Try some bacon flavored lip balm (via Skulls and Bacon). Inspired by maple bacon lollipops, Chomposaurus dreams of the day when we can eat bacon, eggs and homefries on a stick.
Bacon in Bon Appetit (6/08)
From the June issue of Bon Appetit magazine… Porta Via Italian Foods in Pasadena, CA serves a BLT panini with pesto mayonnaise. Happy Belly Foods, a street food vendor in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, offers a BLGT (the G stands for guacamole) on their menu. Continuing with the […]
Bacon in Food & Wine (6/08)
From the June issue of Food & Wine Magazine… Rabelais Books in Portland, Maine stocks “quirky texts like notes written in 1905 on breeding pigs for bacon.” Asador Etxebarri in the Basque region of Spain is famous for their house-made iberico pork chorizo sausage, as well as countless other grilled […]
Smoky Bacon Barbecue Sauce
I stopped by Williams Sonoma earlier this week to pick up a new set of steak knives. But I don’t think I’ve ever walked into Williams Sonoma and only purchased the one thing I was going there to purchase. It’s not unusual for something like steak knives to also lead […]
Bacon Nation Unwrapped: More Bacon Ice Cream
Recent news from the Bacon Nation… Miss Ginsu experiments with three flavors of bacon ice cream: Peanut Butter Bacon Crunch, Nutella Bacon Swirl and Mellow Maple Bacon. The most expensive bacon ever: Francis Bacon Painting Auctioned for Record $86 Million
White Wings
As most of you have probably heard, Jenna Bush – President Bush’s daughter – got hitched at the family ranch in Crawford, Texas this past weekend. Very few details of the weekend’s festivities have been made public, but the Washington Post managed to track down a few tidbits from the […]
Unity Sandwich
A few months ago, Food and Wine Magazine published a recipe for a BLT Fried Egg and Cheese Sandwich that was created by Chef Thomas Keller of the highly acclaimed restaurant, French Laundry. The idea behind this sandwich is that it “combines three of the world’s most popular sandwiches […]